No reason was given for why the children were removed, however, and Holland Township police chief David Van Gilson told the site they had not received any reports of abuse or negligence.

I'd say, on the Unfit Scale of 1 to 10, these naming shenanigans make the parents a 7, and it takes a 9 to remove the kids from a home. So something more was probably going on. But this is a great way to get CPS to come idly knocking at your door, at least.

Right. But if it was basically just the names, that's pretty crazy. And I'm not sure the names plus something-less-than-perceived-full-cooperation-with-CPS wouldn't be enough to justify removal in the eyes of some social workers.

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Crap. Crap crap crap. I just discovered, via that ridiculous google-earth map of Prop 8 donors, that my grandma gave the Prop 8 a whole buncha money, as did a bunch of really nice LDS people I grew up with. But grandma! Jesus.
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I know about half of the people in the East Bay who donated, and over the hills in Lamorinda I recognize a bunch of names. The church must have been organizing like crazy. Obviously, I didn't really want to know about the extent of this before, or this wouldn't have come as such a shock.
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it's just a bunch of syllables strung together, and they stumbled upon the fanciful combinations of Adolph Hitler

That one is straightforward.

JoyceLynn Aryan Nation

That one is fucking funny. She totally went down to the meeting to listen to the speaker explain the superiority of the white race and maybe meet some guys, but OMG, there were totally a bunch of dorks there. They totally weren't superior AT ALL. How is she supposed to help create the master race without some masterful guy [*]????

, and Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie?

That's the weirdy. Tried to name the kid for a Nazi, but just couldn't find a book with a list of names in it, and so they just guessed.

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['And the next one can be Guerre de Richlanzer von Wolfen-Goldstein.']

I don't think so. My grandmother had a ringside seat to her gay brother-in-law's long-term, committed relationship; compared with that example, there's nothing I could say. I'm just really bummed about her donation. Another family in the neighborhood gave the campaign money I seriously doubt they could afford; they were always cash-strapped. And the wife of my former bishop! And the really cool lady my mom worked with in the stake! I just kinda hope that this whole campaign has left a sour taste in the donors' mouths.

I can see them as considering the donations almost as tithing, given privately to the church as moral support for a cause that wasn't really in question. Now it's not so private, it's become very clearly political, and the cause is far, far from over.

I mean, pretty much every donor from Oakland to Richmond is LDS. The ones I don't know personally have last names that match old clans. The aftermath of this proposition has been a massive outing of LDS political influence---and historically the church hasn't come out so well when its hand becomes overt.

43.---The church owns a lot of the land in Utah. They've been a major political partner in the Republican Revolution. They're massively overrepresented in the CIA and state department (I'd like to give a shout out to the current ambassador to Jordan and his wife---y'all are awesome!). I don't really know why Pres. Hinckley received the medal of freedom, but I suspect it had something to do with political favors.

I keep meaning to figure this one mystery involving a famous awful name - remember the Ima Hogg and Ura Hogg, sisters. The thing is, I thought that those sisters would be like, I don't know, 4 years old. But there's also an Ima Hogg who is a very prolific supporter of the arts. Both Ima Hogg's appear to be from Texas. So, either there's a really rich philanthropical 4-year old out there or, there were actually two sets of parents, not in the whole world, just in the state of Texas, brain damged enough to name their daughter Ima Hogg. Even for someone with as dim a view of people as myself, this is saddening.

"In 1929, she founded the Houston Child Guidance Center, which provides counseling for disturbed children and their families. Through her brother's will, she established the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health at the University of Texas at Austin in 1940. Hogg successfully ran for a seat on the Houston School Board in 1943, where she worked to remove gender and race as criteria for determining pay and established art education programs for black students."

74: If you have the time, I would strongly recommend going via Death Valley and then over the Panamints to 395 and up the Owens Valley past Mammoth to Tahoe (where you can cut over on 50 if you don't want to go on up to 80 & do the Donner thing). Brilliant stuff the whole way.

74: If you have the time, I would strongly recommend going via Death Valley and then over the Panamints to 395 and up the Owens Valley past Mammoth to Tahoe (where you can cut over on 50 if you don't want to go on up to 80 & do the Donner thing). Brilliant stuff the whole way.

Speaking of last names involving Butt, I find it amusing that major Texas supermarket chain H-E-B got its name from former owner Howard E. Butt, who realized that calling his store "Butt Grocery" or some such would not be good for business.

My dad was born while my gramps was at sea working on a tuna boat. Gramma and Grampa had agreed to name him Harold, but when the time came Gramma named him John. She neglected to tell Gramps on his return. Dad was five years old when his father found out his real name.

An Indian friend of mine went to college with a guy whose name, pronounced Ah-Nal Duk-Shut, is spelled Anal Dikshit.

If you have the time, I would strongly recommend going via Death Valley and then over the Panamints to 395 and up the Owens Valley past Mammoth to Tahoe (where you can cut over on 50 if you don't want to go on up to 80 & do the Donner thing). Brilliant stuff the whole way.